Differentiation of sex chromosomes and karyotypic evolution in the eye-lid geckos (Squamata: Gekkota: Eublepharidae), a group with different modes of sex determination

Chromosome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 809-820

  Pokorná, Martina ^a,b   Rábová, Marie ^b   Ráb, Petr ^b   Ferguson Smith, Malcolm A ^c   Rens, Willem ^c   Kratochvíl, Lukáš ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eublepharid lizards; FISH; neo sex chromosomes; reptile cytogenetics

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CYTOGENETICS; EYELID GECKO; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; LIZARD; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES; TELOMERE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; LIZARDS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AELUROSCALABOTES FELINUS; ARANEUS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COLEONYX BREVIS; COLEONYX ELEGANS; COLEONYX VARIEGATUS; EUBLEPHARIDAE; EUBLEPHARIS; EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS; GEKKONIDAE; GEKKOTA; GONIUROSAURUS; GONIUROSAURUS LUII; HEMITHECONYX CAUDICINCTUS; HOLODACTYLUS AFRICANUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 78649963646     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-010-9154-7     Document Type: Article

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